Show HN: Forage Mail – AI that declutters your inbox with a clean daily summary

Hi HN, we’re Richie, Eni, Elton, and Cynthia, and we’re building Forage Mail (https://foragemail.com), an AI that filters your incoming mail, removes low-priority emails from your inbox, and then sends you a daily summary email that includes a TLDR of every newsletter you received.

You can start using Forage in just 30 seconds by connecting your Gmail account. Forage will start by filtering the last 3 days of email and creating your first daily summary. Then it will continue monitoring for incoming mail. Forage AI labels every email and then handles it according to your rules. You can choose to Keep in Inbox, Summarize, or Mute any category—or you can create custom rules for specific senders.

LLMs give us an opportunity to completely rethink our relationship to email. While most AI email agents are focused on drafting replies and automating responses, we decided to focus on the >90% of email that doesn’t need a reply. Surely there’s a better way to consume all this information and stay on top of notifications and newsletters—and we think we found it!

Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM9X4DhtlJk

There were two moments that stand out from our early experimentation on this project:

1 — During early product research, we asked the question, “how do you feel about your email inbox?” and most people responded with audible groans, sighs, or eye rolls.

2 — We originally created an AI that only filtered newsletters and summarized them. Early testers liked the results, but admitted that it was “yet another email” in their inbox. So we sat down with them and looked through their inboxes. Then we realized, we could do something about most of these emails.

…and maybe, in the space we create in their inbox, we could build something truly new and exciting.

Forage is Google Verified, has passed a required security audit, and is requesting the minimum permissions necessary to deliver our advertised features. We were surprised to learn that Google doesn't separate the permissions for sending emails and managing emails (labeling, archiving, marking read). But we don’t have any features that send emails from your account.

Excited to share Forage Mail with everyone here on HN. Please let us know what you think!